Celiac Disease

Ever wonder about the history of Celiac Diease?

Listed here were significant dates and contributions, known for their conviction to put an end to this debilitating malabsorption disease, celiac sprue (celiac disease).

 

• 400 B.C.- During this time, the great Greek physician Hippocrates established a customary school of medicine founded on the notion that diseases were not to be attributed anymore with supernatural forces, and that diseases were caused by actual physical and environmental causes rather than by disappointed and resentful gods.

 

• 250 A.D.-  Galen, also known as Arataeus of Cappadocia, was the first to explain the variations of celiac disease between children and adult.

 

• 1888-  It is the year when the first clinical accounts regarding adult and children’s celiac disease were presented by Samuel Gee. It was in this account that he commented “If the patient be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.”

• 1908-  Herter was the first to identify that celiac disease can lead to stunted growth especially among middle-aged children.

• 1921-  Howland devised a healthy diet (three-stage diet) for celiac sufferers.  It is referred to as milk/protein diet.

• 1932-  The first clinical explanation of celiac disease in adults was provided by Thaysen although he lacked knowledge on intestinal pathology.

• 1950-  Willem Karel Dicke astutely identified cereal grains as the culprit in aggravating the symptoms of celiac disease, especially in children.

• 1954-  Paulley while experimenting with surgical biopsy material was the first to accurately discover the intestinal lesions caused by celiac disease in patients.

• 1955-  Margo Shiner invented a minute biopsy tube still used today for diagnosing celiac disease presence in the jejunum (small intestines).

At this time studying and extensive research are still being done by experts with the intention of finding a real cure for this mysterious malady, celiac disease.

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